Forbidden City, Qianqing Palace.

Zhu Cihong leaned on the throne and hugged the crown prince Zhu and His Majesty in his arms.

Zhu Cihong was playing with a silver round with white flowers, and at the same time examined the allusion of the crown prince Cao Chong calling the elephant.

This silver round is beautifully made, with delicate color and clear and natural patterns, and it not only has the words "Tianwu Tongbao" written on it, but also the weight and silver content printed on it.

Prince Zhu and His Majesty stared at the silver yuan, blinked his eyes and said, "Father, the emperor thinks that to call an elephant, you don't necessarily have to use stones, you can also use the silver yuan in your hand." ”

"Oh?"

Zhu Cihong was surprised, he didn't expect the prince to be able to draw inferences at a young age.

Zhu He said: "The volume of the stone is too large, it is easy to occupy space, the volume of the silver round is small and dense, it is four or five times that of the stone, and it is both trouble-free and labor-saving if you use the silver round." ”

Zhu Cihong smiled even more between his eyebrows, and praised: "The emperor is really powerful, he is only more than four years old and even knows the density, who taught you?" ”

The prince raised his little face and said: "Yesterday, the emperor asked the prince which is harder, silver or stone, and the prince said that silver is harder, and also told the emperor about the density of several things. ”

Mao Xiang can, he has taught the prince physics knowledge since he was a child, and he has also expanded the popularity, he is a good teacher!

Zhu Cihong's evaluation of the crown prince and the prince Mao Xiang has been raised by one level again.

In fact, Mao Xiang knew that Emperor Tianwu attached great importance to natural science and did not like traditional Confucianism very much, and even the general social studies of the people popularized children's scientific knowledge.

Therefore, when Mao Xiang taught the prince Zhu and His Majesty, he spared no effort to teach science first, and only when the prince was six years old, he really went out of the pavilion to study, and then taught himself the poetry he was good at.

Zhu Cihong put the silver yuan in his hand in the prince's small hand and said: "The emperor's idea is very good, and the father is very pleased, but it is not appropriate to call it an elephant, and it is inappropriate to use silver yuan." ”

"Why?" The prince asked curiously.

Zhu Cihong explained: "This silver yuan can be enough for an ordinary person for several months, and an elephant weighs 10,000 catties, and it needs more than 100,000 silver yuan to weigh it, which is unaffordable." ”

The prince touched his chin and said, "Isn't Cao Chong's father the prime minister?" Doesn't his house have a hundred thousand silver yuan? ”

Zhu Cihong smiled and said: "Even if Prime Minister Cao Cheng has it, he doesn't dare to take it out and call it an elephant." ”

"Why?" The prince was curious again.

Zhu Cihong smiled and touched the prince's bald head and said, "You'll know when you grow up." ”

The crown prince nodded, pondered for a long time, and then asked, "Father, why don't we have a prime minister in the Ming Dynasty?" ”

"Because the prime minister is not a good bird, such as Cao Chong's father Cao Cao, who bullies the emperor every day."

It is impossible for Zhu Cihong to explain to him the struggle between imperial power and relative power, so he can only explain it to him.

Children always like 100,000 whys, only to hear the prince ask again: "Then do we have Cao Cao in the Ming Dynasty?" ”

Zhu Cihong smiled, as if he was reminiscing, he said: "There was before, but now there is none, as for whether there will be in the future, it depends on your means." ”

The prince shook his head, obviously unable to understand the sentence.

At this time, a small yellow door walked in with his head down, and presented a notebook: "Your Majesty, the battle report on the front line has arrived, and there is also a transcript sent from Taiwan by the national surname." ”

Zhu Cihong took a few notebooks and looked at them carefully.

First of all, Shen Shouchong reported that the Ming Imperial Navy invaded Shuri, the capital of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and the resistance encountered was vulnerable, and a large number of Japanese soldiers were captured.

Zhu Cihong put Shen Shouchong's recital aside and looked at Zhu Chenggong's recital again.

Zhu Chenggong, the national surname, asked him to attack Kyushu, Japan, and said that only two divisions of the Nanyang Fleet would be sufficient.

Zhu Cihong smiled, and saw through Zhu Chenggong's careful thoughts at a glance.

Zhu Chenggong wanted to make meritorious contributions, second, he wanted to maintain the Zheng family's business in Japan, and third, he wanted to take revenge on the Tokugawa shogunate.

Zhu Chenggong's mother is Japanese, and she was born in the Hirado Domain of Kyushu, Japan, which is the place where Shen Shouchong's second phase of the campaign was attacked.

At the beginning, the Tokugawa shogunate detained their mother and son in order to contain Zheng Zhilong, and Zhu Chenggong did not leave Japan until he was six years old and returned to his hometown in Quanzhou, Fujian, and entered the ancestral home of the Zheng family.

Zhu Chenggong also has a younger brother, named Tagawa Nanazaemon, who is a feudal priest of the Hirado Domain, and Zheng Zhilong originally passed this second son to his wife Tagawa clan.

Now Tagawa Nanazaemon is engaged in Sino-Japanese trade, and has remained in Kyushu, Japan, as the representative of the Zheng family in Japan.

Now that the war is about to burn to his grandfather's house, Zhu Chenggong is a little panicked.

After a while, Zhu Cihong approved Zhu Chenggong, the Zheng family's industry is the property under the Royal Group, and it will be protected, let him honestly guard Taiwan, and tell him that he will consider using him as the commander in the future to conquer Japan.

In terms of understanding Japan, Zhu Chenggong knows better than anyone that he is the most suitable candidate to occupy Japan in the future.

Zhu Cihong is also thinking that after this battle, it is time to adjust the commanders of the naval and land armies, and change the main generals of the major military departments, so that they cannot be allowed to accumulate strength in one place all the time.

Zhu Cihong is not worried about the foreign war, and his current focus is on currency reform.

The replacement of the old and new currencies has always been a very complicated and troublesome matter, and the current monetary system is not perfect, and the slightest carelessness will cause social turmoil and price fluctuations.

During this period, including before the new currency was launched, major newspapers began to promote the new currency and build momentum for the new currency.

In Chinese history, there have been many examples of failed new currency hairstyles, the most famous being Wang Mang's currency reform and Zhu Yuanzhang's Daming treasure banknote.

The new currency is based on government credit, and once issued, it must be unified and must not be changed overnight.

Zhu Cihong did not expect silver dollars and banknotes to replace the old currency all at once, let alone use an executive order to force the use of the new currency and prohibit the circulation of the old currency.

China's monetary system has developed for thousands of years, and copper coins and silver have penetrated into all aspects of social life and become accustomed to it.

Silver dollars and banknotes cannot fully occupy the circulation market at once, and there is a large vacuum between the old and new currencies, which requires a long transition period.

Only by mixing the old and new currencies together, slowly letting the new currency flow into the market, and driving out the bad currency with good money, can the new currency gradually be accepted by the market and eventually occupy the market in an all-round way.

At the beginning of Wang Mang's reform, a total of four currency reforms were carried out, with an average of less than one in three years, and as many as 28 kinds of currencies were issued, which were very difficult to convert to each other, and the market was at a loss.

Wang Mang also used administrative means to force the merchants and ordinary people to accept new currency, and whoever opposed it would be involved, which seemed to be awesome, fighting with others, and the more he fought, the more ruthless he became.

In fact, he is fighting against the laws of the market, causing chaos in the monetary system and overdrawing the government's creditworthiness.

Wang Mang not only failed to save the social crisis in the late Western Han Dynasty, but further intensified various contradictions, so that he cooled down, and Tianling Gai was collected by the royal family of later dynasties and suppressed by witchcraft.

It was not until the Western Jin Dynasty that the Luoyang arsenal was fired, and Wang Mang's head, which had been collected by the royal family for nearly three hundred years, was burned and feathered into immortals.

Zhu Cihong is very grateful for the rich experience provided by this old brother Wang, but he is a little confused, what kind of face does Cao Wei and the Jin Dynasty have the face to collect the head of the leading brother in the usurper world? Still seals?